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 "I knew you 'd come!" he cried.

She seemed frightened by his ardor.

"House is all fixed up again."

He saw by her face that she knew this.

"I say, it was good of you and Amaterasu to bring on that earthquake just at the right moment, and give me a chance."

"You got make speech then!"

Bob shouted joyously. He had about exhausted his small talk.

"Tha' 's mos' bes' nize speech of all."

"An' that the mos' bes' nize earthquake of all."

"Me? I also lig gents what kin do things."

"Me? I also lig girls what kin say things."

The ship was giving its last warning.

"Well—" began Bashful Bob, with another such uprising in his throat as on the night of his party, holding out his hands. But she was looking down, and did not see them.

"Sa-ay, you aever coming back at Japan 'nother time? Me? I thing I git that lonely—if you don'," was what she was murmuring.

It was her most charming pose again.